The Queen of Scrolls never admits defeat

Chapter 532 The School of the Mind
“The memory palace doesn’t allow you to truly memorize and master this knowledge; it’s only temporary storage. To truly learn it, you still need to review it,” Moran reminded her.

"Hmm!" Samantha thought, "It's quite useful, but it takes up a lot of mental energy. Fortunately, when reviewing, it doesn't require as much mental energy as when memorizing."

Moran nodded: "Then, senior, I'll go find my dorm now."

“Okay!” Samantha said.

Samantha suddenly frowned as the curtain of the recruitment booth was lifted and lowered again.

Wait a minute! She's a witch!
Witches can use copying techniques combined with the Book of Witches to copy books into the Book of Witches without needing mental energy!

This memory palace is only useful for mages who don't have the Book of Witches!

Damn it! I got scammed!

Moran tossed her student ID card in a cheerful mood and strode away from College Square No. 1.

The wild mage can't abandon his stingy persona, but as for Senior Samantha, all I can say is sorry.

The memory palace is a great technique for utilizing mental energy, but it is somewhat wasteful of mental energy, especially for those who have other ways to quickly store knowledge.

My mental strength isn't at her level, so I can't use it as easily as she does, and the effects aren't as amazing. It's perfect for making some extra money.

While elite mages can read the academy's magic books and attend its magic classes for free, receiving the best training, they still need to pay points to stay in dormitories, dine in the restaurant, have their clothes washed, and hire servants and attendants.

Within Tallinn, all services require points to pay for; gold coins cannot be used directly.

1000 points per month is definitely enough in Tallinn, but if you only have that much, you'll have to be very frugal.

Even elite mages, if they want to stay in the best dormitories and eat in the best restaurants in Tallinn, will have to find ways to earn more points.

As for food, that's fine. With Dawn's Descent Contractors already around, she can just use ready-made food cards to solve the problem.

Living up there is quite inconvenient. She just checked and found that the closer the dormitory is to the Mage Tower, the more expensive it is. The ones near the main towers of each branch are the most expensive, costing 50 points per day and requiring a minimum of one month's rent.

The lounge inside the Mage Tower is more expensive, costing 100 points per day, with a minimum rental period of one day.

There are also dormitories that cost 1 point per day, but they are all located in remote corners of Tallinn and the conditions are not very good.

However, no matter how many points you have, the dormitory is better than the small mud houses in the Witch Academy. It is fully equipped with basic living supplies, and at the very least, it is about the same as a mid-range hotel room.

It seems like a good deal, but one point can be exchanged for 100 regular gold coins?

The academy has a special points exchange office where one magic coin can be exchanged for one point, and one point can be exchanged for 100 ordinary coins.

Even the most upscale hotels wouldn't dare charge 100 ordinary gold coins per night, let alone 1 magic gold coin.

Exchanging points for gold coins is not cost-effective, and exchanging magic gold coins for points is also not very cost-effective. It's best to earn points in the Tower of Tarlin and use them there.

Moran had no desire to live in that marginal dormitory that cost 1 point a day; walking to the mage tower every day was such a waste of time!

She hadn't forgotten that the Wilderness Protection Magic Array's firework bombs could last for at most ten years.

She needed to quickly learn all the magic treasures of the Imperial Magic Academy so she could slip away.

With her current points, she can't afford to rent any dormitory near the mage tower. The monthly rent is 1500, and she already cheated her senior Samantha out of 100. She's still 400 short!
The lounge inside the Mage Tower costs only 100 points per day, enough to stay for ten days.

The conditions aren't great, but it's easier to encounter mentor-level mages, since only peak-level and super-peak-level mages are qualified to reside in the mage tower for an extended period.

However, Moran felt it was a bit of a waste, and she didn't want to find a mage mentor. She set her sights on the meditation rooms in the various mage towers that were mentioned only briefly in "Chapter Two: Dormitory Check-in Guide".

Meditation rooms are typically only the size of a single bed, and do not have the standard dorm room or study. Once a person leaves, anyone can come in, and you can't store anything there, but they are cheap!

One point is enough to stay for one hour.

Moran even sold his magic carriage; once he entered Tallinn, he had no intention of leaving.

I'm going to go to the main tower of the School of Mental Sciences first, find a meditation room, carefully read through all the freshman brochures, and then go to the library of the main tower to look at the magic books.

In the Tallinn map, the mage tower complex of the School of Spirituality is located in the center, with the main tower of the School of Spirituality being the very center of the center.

This position shows that although mages advocate elemental meditation, mental magic has always held a very high status.

Mental magic is also the only type of magic that can be learned only at the Imperial Magic Academy, and it is also a magic system unique to human mages.

Moran had read several books about mental magic and had long been curious about this type of magic.

She walked to the magical horse station platform near the No. 1 Academy Square.

Tallinn is very, very large. Even at the speed of a mage, it would be difficult to walk to the main tower of the School of Spirituality on foot until dark.

Outside carriages are not allowed to enter Tallinn, but fortunately there are many public magical carriages inside the academy.

Between each pair of magical horse-drawn carriage stations, there is a dedicated public magical horse-drawn carriage line, costing 1 point regardless of distance.

Once Moran arrived at the platform, he immediately found the magic carriage that led from Academy Square No. 1 to the main tower of the School of the Mind.

"Are you going to the main tower of the Psychiatric Division, sir?" the servant driving the carriage asked respectfully.

He is an ordinary person.

"Hmm." Moran said, swiping her student card in a groove on the carriage door, paying the fare, climbing onto the carriage, and taking up a spot by the window, her movements so practiced that she didn't seem like a freshman.

The main thing is that the student card user guide is so detailed that it's almost like they took photos and videos of the entire guide, and there's also a prominent "card reader" sign on the carriage door.

The magic carriage wouldn't depart for a while, so she closed her eyes and began reading the "New Life Guide (Ancient Mage Edition)" in her memory palace.

I've finished reading Chapter 1 and Chapter 2.

She started reading from Chapter 3, and after finishing Chapter 5, the Ancient Mage Training Program, she skipped directly to the Mental Academy Student Guide to avoid having trouble finding the library and meditation room in the main tower of the Mental Academy later.

She was watching so intently that she didn't even notice when the carriage was full and started moving.

When she arrived at the main tower platform of the School of Mental Health, she had just finished reading "Chapter Six: The School of Mental Health Student Guide".

That's great! I don't need to waste points looking for the new student guide in the meditation room anymore. I can just go to the library and find the mental magic books to read, which saves me some points.

When Moran got off the carriage and stood in front of the main tower of the School of the Mind, she felt exceptionally small.

The Mage Tower is very tall, and the main tower is even taller.

A building constructed purely using physical methods could never reach this height.

(End of this chapter)